WORKING GROUPS
COSTING
One Health Model
An inter-agency working group composed of UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO and World Bank staff has been working since January 2008 on the harmonization of costing and impact assessment tools used in the health sector. This IAWG-Costing has reviewed existing planning, costing and budgeting tools for the health sector and is now developing a single UN tool.
The OneHealth Tool (previously known as the Unified Health model) is envisioned as a single model to be used for supporting the costing, budgeting, financing and national strategies development of the health sector in developing countries with a focus on integrated planning and strengthening health systems. This model seeks to leverage the most useful components of the different tools that currently exist and is designed in a modular fashion allowing for program specific costing as well as health system component costing.
The first version of OneHealth will become available from September 2011, with modules to support MDG-related health activities as well as planning and costing for health systems supply side (human resources, infrastructure and logistics). The model also includes a financial space analysis and health impact prediction for MDGs. Various components of the tool have been field tested and reviewed by experts, and its overall framework has been reviewed as part of country desk reviews.
IAWG-Costing will further develop the tool to include additional modules for health information systems, governance and non-communicable diseases in the second version, to become available later in 2011, to allow for comprehensive health systems planning.
Components available in September version:
- Planning by levels (community/ Outreach/Health centre / Hospital) ;
- Planning by programmes: Child health; Reproductive and maternal health; Immunization; Nutrition; Water and Sanitation (WASH); HIV; TB; and Malaria.
- Impact modules: The Lives saved Tool (LiST) for a range of child and maternal health interventions, including malaria interventions; The AIM model for HIV/AIDS interventions; The Family Planning (FamPlan) model for family planning and total fertility rate; and a newly developed TB impact model.
- Health systems planning: human resources, infrastructure and logistics
- Bottleneck analysis
- Projections of future available health financing and financial space
- Budget Mapping
- Results for total and additional costs, outputs and health impact
Additional components to become available in later versions:
- Planning by programmes: non communicable diseases (NCDs); Neglected Tropical Diseases; General Care
- Health systems planning: Health Information Systems, Governance, Health Financing Activities
- Impact modules for adult malaria and NCDs.
For more information, please contact: onehealthtool@unfpa.org
OneHealth Questions and Answers, May 2011
| Update on Inter-Agency Working Group on Costing, August 2011 |
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| One Health Model Update, March 2011 |
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| Update on Inter-Agency Working Group on Costing, October2009 |
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| Update on Inter-Agency Working Group on Costing, December 2009 |
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